Preface

Visual Quantitative Finance presents a simplified, but powerful view of financial mathematics. It is written for trustees, investors, advisors, students, and others interested in quantitative finance, risk management, options strategies, structured securities, or financial model building—or for those looking for new ways to explain these topics to someone else.

What makes this book different is its visual presentation of formulas and concepts that may be more intuitive, especially for those without quantitative backgrounds. By working directly with the mathematical building blocks of finance—random variables—rather than formulas derived from them, the underlying mechanism of option pricing becomes simple and transparent, creating many ...

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